Third St., Cresson Township, Cresson, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Cambria.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 24, 1995. NRIS 95000125.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Benjamin Franklin Jones Cottage (also known as Braemar Cottage) is a cottage on the National Register of Historic Places in Cresson Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 1990, the mansion was purchased by a group that desired to restore it. In November 2009, a county judge declared the declining property a nuisance and ordered that it be demolished. When the historical group appealed to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, the town supervisors agreed to postpone the demolition until May 2010. A request for a $150,000 grant that the group hoped could fund renovations was rejected.
The structure was saved from demolition in 2011 when it was purchased by a Cresson, Pennsylvania couple who intended to restore it.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995184